Harry Atwater

Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology

Harry Atwater is currently Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology.  His  research interests center around multidisciplinary research on subwavelength-scale photonic devices based on plasmon excitation, propagation and localization, nanocrystal electronic and optoelectronic devices, including silicon nanocrystal nonvolatile memories and LEDs, photovoltaics,  and  ferroelectric and piezoelectric active thin film materials and devices.     In 2001 he served as a Gordon Conference Chair, and in 2008 he will serve as Chair for the Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics.  He currently serves as Director of Caltech’s Center for Science and Engineering of Materials (an NSF MRSEC; www.csem.caltech.edu), and is also Director of the Caltech Center for Sustainable Energy Research (www.ccser.caltech.edu). Atwater is founder and chief technical advisor for Aonex Corporation.  He is also a editorial board member for Surface Review and Letters.